Animal Crossing In Action: Duo Of Justice
Chapter 6: Happy Anniversary StarLily
It was the perfect day for Isabelle to make the special announcement to everybody. They all gathered around the town plaza, including Robert, Lorelei, and Darren. While they paid their attention to her, Sammy and Jimmy started to make their video. Jimmy was filming with his smartphone and Sammy was the star of their video.
"Alright...'Sammy, The Greatest Twin In Town!'" Jimmy announced, as he was acting like the director of the movie while holding his smartphone before recording his video. "Take five, and...Action!"
"I always enjoyed this beautiful town," said Sammy, as he was becoming an actor of his video.
Suddenly, Jimmy bumped into Isabelle as he turned around while he was recording. She immediately told the Slapjack brothers to get in their positions before making an announcement. Jimmy signaled Sammy to stand and blend in with the crowd.
"That was Isabelle who can't wait for me to stand and blend in with the crowd," Sammy continued. "Not only she's a gorgeous pup, but also the best secretary of StarLily ever!"
After Sammy was blending in with the crowd, Jimmy quickly told him to move either left, right, up, or down to avoid the brightness in his smartphone. As he kept on muttering in his mix up way, his older brother got tripped and fell to the ground. Everybody began to laugh at him; and Jimmy helped Sammy to get up before Isabelle had an announcement to make.
"Attention everybody, thank you all for coming!" Isabelle announced. "Today is an important and special day to all of us! It is StarLily's sixth anniversary, and let's hear the news from Mayor Vicki!"
Everybody gave a cheer and a round of applause. Vicki walked up in front of the crowd and waved at them. As soon as the crowd grew silent, she began to make her speech.
"Hello villagers and travelers, and thank you!" Vicki announced. "With StarLily's sixth anniversary is finally here, I have decided that I will giveaway one hundred thousand bells to one participant who wins the draw. Here's how it works, you must participate the draw by writing your name and your town's name if you're a traveler. Then, you will send it to the town hall, and the deadline will be on next week. Finally, I will select the winner a week after the deadline. That is all for now; and good luck for participating, everybody!"
After Vicki was done with her speech, everybody gave her a big round of applause. Isabelle returned to make an announcement once again.
"Thank you, Mayor Vicki!" said Isabelle, as she was facing back to the crowd. "Well then, it's time to get another event started! Not only the draw, but your video project about StarLily! If you're interested, fee free to sign up at the town hall. Your video can be anything; whether you're walking at the beach, hanging out with your friends and neighbors, or whatever you wish. Whenever you're done filming, you will show it to us in the town hall at anytime until the end of next week. Right after watching your video, we will start rating it either it's good or bad. Does anybody get all of that?"
"Yeah!" the crowd agreed in triumph, as they started to clamor about it.
"Great! And that concludes the announcement, everybody! I wish you a best of luck!"
After the special announcements were over, everybody left the town plaza and returned to do their own things. With Isabelle returned to the town hall, some animals began to participate for the draw and some participated for the video project. Even some could participate for both if they couldn't decide. Since the Slapjack brothers already signed in for the video project, they were just continued filiming.
Serenity was having a tough choice whether she could do the draw, the video project, or both. Nick encouraged her to do both, and she couldn't agree more. Lorelei wanted to participate for the video project and Darren started to agree with her. But Robert decided that he should participate the draw, instead of joining the video project with his sister. Suddenly, he saw Vicki walking towards him and smiled at him.
"Hey Robert, did you catch the special announcements just now?" Vicki asked.
Robert nodded and replied, "Oh yes, I did! I'm thinking I should participate the draw, and Lorelei wants to participate the video project with her boyfriend."
Vicki giggled softly. "Your sister is the paparazzi type, isn't she?"
Robert sighed and rolled his eyes. "You...could say that...again."
"Why? Are you the camera shy type of guy?"
"Well...rarely, but it's hard for me to explain this to be honest."
"Oh no, there's no need for explanation! Even if you're trying to, that's fine with me!"
"Y-Yeah, you're probably right about that!"
"So anyways, do you want to join me to the Roost to get a cup of coffee, Robert?"
"Sure, I will love to!"
While Vicki and Robert were going to the Roost, Nick, Serenity, Lorelei, and Darren were standing in line to sign up for the video project and turn in the paper for the draw. As soon as they were waiting for their turn, they saw the duo walking to the Roost happily. This made Lorelei's eyes began to sparkle as she took a picture of them. Nick felt so uneasy from the inside that he didn't even know why exactly.
"Wow, look at them go!" Lorelei exclaimed. "I would never imagine that those two are starting to get along together. They may not be lovers yet, but hopefully they will become one soon!"
"Yeah, I'm surprised as ever," said Nick uneasily, as he was pretending that he agreed with Lorelei. But in his mind, he couldn't tell how Vicki felt about Robert right now.
Inside of the Roost, Vicki and Robert were sitting at the table and drank their coffee. Vicki took out something from her pocket, and it appeared to be a bag of cookies. She opened the bag and took one cookie from it before sharing them to Robert.
"Do you want a cookie?" Vicki asked politely.
"Sure, I'd love to!" Robert replied, as he took one cookie from the bag and ate it. "Wow, this is so good!"
"Thank you, I made them myself!"
"Really? I'm very surprised that you're a good baker!"
"Thanks, that is very kind of you."
When Vicki and Robert left the Roost, they saw the waiting line was getting longer than before. They even saw Nick, Serenity, Lorelei, and Darren were still waiting in line. Robert whistled at the waiting line that he wasn't so sure if he could participate the draw on time before the deadline.
"Look at that line..." said Robert desperately. "I don't know if I can participate the draw with this crowd. I mean if I had to wait in line, then it'll take me until after midnight..."
"Don't worry, Robert, there's still time you know," said Vicki, encouraging him. "You can come back tomorrow to participate if you want. I mean if I were you, I would get there early before the crowd."
"Yeah, I think you're right about that, Vicki! I'll give it a shot by tomorrow! I'll see you later!"
"Yeah, see you!"
At the ship, Allen was looking at the lady who was dressed like a warrior. She had short, dark red hair that matched her eyes. She wore the crimson earrings on her ears and wore the black choker around her neck.
"Did you want to see me, Lord Allen?" she asked in her cold voice.
"Yes, Flare, I want you to go to StarLily and show those heroes some fiery powers of yours!" Allen replied. "This will be StarLily's anniversary gift from me, got it?"
"With pleasure, sir, and I will take Phoebe with me!"
The next morning, Robert woke up and left the hotel so he could participate the draw. As soon as he arrived in town, he only saw two or three animals waiting to participate. When he reached to the front office, he turned in his paper to Isabelle so she could put it into the box along with the other participants' papers.
Meanwhile, Sammy and Jimmy continued their video project as they walked around the river. Sammy took out his net while Jimmy started to record the video with his smartphone.
"'Sammy, The Greatest Twin In Town;' take thirteen..." Jimmy announced. "And...Action!"
"Oh hey, I spy some water bugs in the river!" said Sammy, as he was pointing at the pondskater and was ready to catch it.
Suddenly, Jimmy noticed on his smartphone that the view was too dark. He told Sammy to move a little closer or farther so he could the view in the right way. Until Sammy fell into the river and got all wet, Jimmy goofed off again after he saw his older twin glaring at him.
"Jimmy, get me out of here!" Sammy exclaimed.
Jimmy quickly put down his smartphone and helped his twin brother to get out of the river. When Sammy got slipped down, he dragged his little twin brother to the river. None of them realized was Jimmy's smartphone was still recording the video.
At the gym, Robert yawned and stretched his arms and back at the same time. He lied down on the weight bench and started lifting the barbell up and down. Nick and Darren went to the gym and saw Robert on the weight bench. He suddenly noticed them while he was lifting the barbell.
"Hey guys..." Robert grunted.
"Hey Robert!" said Nick and Darren.
"Did you guys...participate the events already?"
"Yes, we already did..." Nick replied, "after six or seven LONG hours of wait!"
"Yeah, no joke, dude..." Darren agreed. "We've been waiting for a very long time to get our turn until nine or ten at night!"
"Now, THAT'S a very long time alright!" said Robert. "Luckily, I just happened to stop by at the town hall today and the line was very short. I finally participated the draw right away before the longer line begins."
"My curiosity question is who gave you that advice?" Nick asked, as he was starting to get curious.
"Oh, Vicki gave me that advice."
Nick moaned as he placed his hand on his face.
"Well, how come we'd never thought about that?" Darren asked.
"Well, my big question is why didn't she told me about this before?" Nick asked abruptly.
Few hours later, Vicki left the dining room and drank her milkshake. When she walked past the gym, she suddenly heard the cheer that was coming from there. She looked at the window and saw some animals cheering on Robert who was lifting the barbell. She also saw Nick and Darren counting how many times he lifted together. Her eyes were now focus on Robert that she couldn't help but to watch him.
"...47...48...49..." Nick and Darren counted altogether and got really excited at the end. "50!"
"Wow, what a record, moocher!" said T-Bone, the bull.
"I'd say it is!" said Bud, the lion. "It's a new record; and I thought no one could break that record, maaan!"
When everyone gave Robert a cheer and a round of applause, he started to thank them all at once. Then, he noticed Vicki who was standing behind the window and drank the milkshake. He grabbed the towel to wipe off the sweats from his forehead and quickly left the crowd. He was out of the gym and Vicki spotted him while sipping the milkshake until it was gone. She released the straw from her mouth and threw out the empty cup into the trash can.
"Hi Vicki, it's very surprise to see you here," said Robert. "And I want to thank you for your advice from yesterday."
"Oh, no problem at all, Robert," said Vicki happily. "So, you finally participated for the draw in time, right?"
"Yeah, that's right! Hopefully, I will win!"
"I really hope so, too!"
While Vicki and Robert were still talking, Sammy and Jimmy went to the gym. This time, they started to film the scene of working out at the gym. Jimmy started to record the video while Sammy was doing his role.
"'Sammy, The Greatest Twin In Town;' take twenty-seven!" said Jimmy. "And...Action!"
"Now, the gym is where I've been training for!" said Sammy. "Because pump it up is important to me! Oh yeah!"
When Jimmy paused the recording, he walked up to Sammy and said softly, "Sammy...y-you promised me that I can be part of the video..."
"Then, who's going to record the video, idiot?" Suddenly, Sammy saw Bud who was sitting on the bench. So, he asked him nicely, "Hey Bud, can you do us a favor? How would you like to film us doing all the workout?"
"You two, bros, all the workout?" Bud chuckled, as if he thought that it was all the joke.
"Lion dude, just start recording the video, okay?" Sammy took Jimmy's smartphone and gave it to Bud to record the video.
"Boy, this should be fun, maaan..." Bud began to record the video with Jimmy's smartphone.
Meanwhile, Flare, her henchmen, and the fiery ostrich, Phoebe had arrived in StarLily. They looked around the town until they saw the town tree that looked so huge. She took out the torch and used her fire magic to light it up.
"Time to burn this tree down!" Flare exclaimed, as she approached to the town tree and began burning it.
The fire began to spread very fast from the town tree's roots to the branches. When Isabelle saw the town tree was on fire, she began to panic. Then, she spotted Flare and her henchmen at the town plaza.
"Just who on earth are you people?!" Isabelle asked. "And why are you doing this to the town tree?!"
"I'm turning this tree into ashes, little miss doggy!" Flare exclaimed, as she took the portion of the fire from the torch and became a fireball. "You'd better watch out! Otherwise, you'll get burned!"
Isabelle began to scream as she quickly ran back to the town hall. As soon as she closed the door, Flare threw the fireball at the bottom of it. All of the sudden, the tiny fire started to burn at the bottom of the door.
Vicki and Robert left the hotel and decided to go to the town. Suddenly, they saw a huge smoke that was coming from there. Vicki's eyes began to wide with terror and had a bad feeling of what's causing the smoke. Then, she and Robert saw some animals screaming and running away from the smoke, including Lorelei and Serenity.
"Fire, fire!" Lorelei shouted.
"There's a fire going on in the town!" Serenity cried.
"F-Fire, you say?!" said Vicki, as she was in a big shock. "You guys remain here, I'll check it out to see what's happening..."
"Let me come, too," said Robert.
"No! Um...you stay with the others, Robert. I can handle this!"
Once Vicki ran off to see what's going on in StarLily, Robert watched her go until she's gone. So, he quickly grabbed Lorelei and whispered to her ear.
"Lorelei, take Serenity inside of the hotel while I'll go to see of what's happening in StarLily," Robert whispered. "If she's asking of where I was, just tell her that I'm in the Nooklings' store. You got that?"
"Yes, Robert, I got it!" Lorelei whispered back.
When Lorelei took Serenity to the hotel right away, Robert quickly hid between the buildings. As soon as no one saw him, he immediately transformed into Masked Swordmaster.
Vicki rushed to StarLily and saw a fire that was coming from the town tree. Then, she spotted Flare and her henchmen at the town plaza, including Phoebe. She quickly hid behind the bushes and transformed into Phantom Angel.
Flare laughed hysterically as she watched the town tree burned. Suddenly, she got hit by the light beam. Everyone looked around to see of where it's coming from. Then, they saw an angel standing right behind them.
"How dare you, foes, started the fire by the time like this?" Phantom Angel exclaimed. "Now that you ruined this town's sixth anniversary, you're going to pay the highest price!"
"Well, well, look who it is..." said Flare sarcastically, "if it isn't the hero of this town..."
"And don't forget about me, Flare!" Masked Swordmaster exclaimed, as he leaped down from the tree and joined Phantom Angel's side. "It's time to put your fire out for good!"
"Well, that's just great...the dynamic duo is finally here. Boys, get them before they put out of the fire."
The heroes charged right through Flare's henchmen and started fighting in order to get out of their way. After they got beaten so easily, Flare was not amused that the fight was too quick for the heroes than she thought. Phantom Angel took out her guardian staff and summoned her attack.
"Guardian bubble whirlpool!" Phantom Angel shouted, as the bubbles were bursting on Flare.
"Great, keep distracting her, Phantom Angel," said Masked Swordmaster. "Allow me to put out the fire!" He took out his guardian cannon and aimed it at the town tree. "Guardian hydro cannon!"
Masked Swordmaster's guardian cannon started bursting out with water and put out the fire from the town tree right away. As soon as the fire was gone, the town tree was safe and still standing. There were a few leaves burnt out, but not all of them though. Flare got all wet after Phantom Angel's bubble attack cooled her down. Suddenly, Phoebe quickly aimed the angel with her slingshot. Phantom Angel quickly turned around and stopped the fiery ostrich.
"Guardian sphere!" Phantom Angel called, as she summoned the sphere to trap Phoebe inside.
"Hey, get me out of here, sparky!" Phoebe yelled, as she banged and kicked the sphere many times. "Not cool at all!"
"Alright, Flare, your plan failed and just give it up already!" Phantom Angel exclaimed.
Flare laughed hysterically. "Now, why would I want to do that? Besides, you two may have saved the town tree, but I think you're forgetting something..."
As soon as Flare was pointing at the town hall, Phantom Angel and Masked Swordmaster were shocked that they nearly forgot it was also on fire. Suddenly, they heard someone screaming and crying for help. They saw Isabelle, who was trapped inside of the town hall with fire, banging on the window several times.
After Flare disappeared, the heroes rushed to the town hall in order to save Isabelle from the disastrous fire. As soon as Masked Swordmaster opened the door, something struck him all of the sudden. He immediately saw a terrifying flashback that reminded him when he was trapped somewhere in the building with fire. Few seconds later, his flashback has ended as he moved away from the door and shook his head. Phantom Angel looked at him anxiously and was worried about his actions.
"Hey, something the matter?" she asked.
"N-No, everything's okay really..." Masked Swordmaster replied, as he was pretending that nothing's happening to him. "You go ahead and save Isabelle; I'll put out the fire!"
"Um, okay...whatever you say."
While Masked Swordmaster extinguished the fire with his cannon, Phantom Angel rushed inside of the town hall. She shouted Isabelle's name until she found her shielding herself under the desk from the fire. As soon as the dog saw the heroic angel, she crawled from the desk so she could carry her away from the burning building. Phantom Angel quickly used her barrier to protect herself and Isabelle from the blazing fire. Finally, they got escaped from the burning town hall. After Masked Swordmaster got rid of the fire, he immediately went to check on them to make sure if they're okay.
"Are you two alright?" he asked.
"Yeah, I'm alright," Phantom Angel replied.
"I'm okay..." Isabelle coughed, after she inhaled the smoke from the fire. Because of that, her clothes and fur were now covered with soot.
"I think we should take Isabelle to the hospital right away," said Masked Swordmaster. "Her condition is not looking so good."
"You're right!" Phantom Angel agreed. "But who's going to take Phoebe to Booker and Copper?"
"I'll bring her there; you go right ahead and take Isabelle to the hospital."
"Sounds like a good plan!"
One hour later, Phantom Angel and Masked Swordmaster saw the town tree and the town hall were ruined because of Flare's fire power. Phantom Angel was walking to the town tree and saw the burned markings on the tree. Masked Swordmaster walked to the town hall and saw some burned areas. He placed his hand on the burned door and touched it. The last time he touched the door during the fire, something that gave him fear. But this time, nothing happened after the fire was extinguished.
"Hey...is this really a good time for me to ask you something?" Phantom Angel asked, as she was standing right behind Masked Swordmaster.
Masked Swordmaster quickly turned around and answered, "Yes, of course! What is it you want to know?"
"Well, how do I put it this way? But...what happened back then? I mean, the time before you extinguished the fire from the town hall."
"Oh that...it's nothing really. I thought I already gave you an answer, didn't I?"
Phantom Angel shook her head. "No, you didn't..."
"I didn't? Oh right, I gave you a different answer when you asked me a different question!"
"Yeah, I think you misheard me."
"Yeah, right. Anyways, about what happened back then...well... N-No, y-you don't really want to know."
"Oh, come on! You can tell me! I can take it!"
Masked Swordmaster sighed heavily. "Okay, fine, but this is between you and me on this topic. Got it?"
Phantom Angel nodded. "Yeah, I got it!"
Masked Swordmaster cleared his throat and began his explanation. "When I reached to the door of the town hall, something showed me that was similar to here. I was trapped in the fire somewhere in Emblem, which I'm sure of it! But I don't remember the place I was in or what I've been doing there for! Because everywhere I saw was fire, nothing else! I don't see any clue of what building I was in. In the end, I was blacked out all of the sudden!"
"That was horrible, you almost died at wherever the place you're in! But hey, at least you're still alive!"
"Yes, I am still. But enough of that, what about you? What's something that terrifies you the most?"
Phantom Angel blinked her eyes. "What terrifies me the most you say? Now that you mentioned it, there's one villain who forced me to kiss him last year. I was so terrified that he's going to give me a poisonous one."
"What a shock! Who on earth would do such a thing to you?"
"I'm pretty sure that you're about to blow your mind, but that villain was Nightmare Mime."
"Mastermind Clown's cousin?!"
Phantom Angel nodded. "That's exactly my point! Kissing by a villain is nothing but a nightmare!"
Masked Swordmaster sighed softly. "Now, you're telling me this..."
"Huh? What's that you say?"
"Um, sorry I really have to go. It's nice talking to you!"
"Yeah, same here..."
One week later, the town hall was finally reconstructed and Isabelle was fully recovered. With the video project was due very soon, everyone showed their videos to Vicki and Isabelle. After they both watched each and every video so far, they gave each group or participant a certain rating. It was Lorelei's turn to show them a video. It was about a group of friends hanging out in StarLily. This video took about ten or fifteen minutes so far. After her video ended, Vicki and Isabelle gave her a good rating.
"Well done, Lorelei, that's a good video you showed us," said Vicki.
"An excellent video, I daresay!" said Isabelle.
"Thank you very much!" said Lorelei, as she sat back down between Robert and Darren.
Isabelle walked up to Sammy since he and Jimmy were the last ones. He was waiting for his little brother to get their video completed before showing it to everyone. Otherwise, he would get disqualified if Jimmy didn't there in time to show off their video.
"Last, but not least, we will be seeing Sammy and Jimmy's video," Isabelle announced, as she was glaring at Sammy.
Before Sammy could say anything, Jimmy arrived just in time to bring their completed video. He passed it on to Isabelle, and she began showing their video to everyone. When Jimmy quickly sat down next to Sammy, his older brother grinned and watched their own video to see how it turned out.
"'I enjoyed this town!'" said Sammy, as he was at the town plaza while the music background was added to the video.
"'Get in the crowd now!'" said Isabelle, with the close-up face.
"'That Isabelle can't stand the crowd.'" Suddenly, the scene was showing Sammy got tripped and fell to the ground.
Everyone, in the town hall, started to laugh after watching this scene. Isabelle glared at Sammy, whose jaws were dropping, and thought he was insulting her in the video. Jimmy started to scratch his head nervously and pinched his lips with his own fingers.
"'Pump it up-grr-is important to me!'" Sammy exclaimed, as he was showing his muscles at the gym.
After that happened, the scene was showing Jimmy on top of Sammy who was doing the butterfly machine. He suddenly jumped down and accidentally knocked his older brother silly. The next scene was showing Jimmy jumping over Sammy from the trampoline, grabbed the stick, and both of them attacked. But they dropped their sticks when Sammy's hand got hurt. He fell to the floor before Jimmy tripped over and fell down. The final scene at the gym was showing Sammy doing the exercise bike while Jimmy was swinging the punching bag like crazy. But that pushed his older brother to the floor when he was spinning it out of control.
"Why you little-?!" Sammy clenched his teeth, as he was glaring at Jimmy and ready to punch him while everybody were still laughing at their video.
"I-I-I just cut that part already..." Jimmy stammered, as he and Sammy were watching the next part of the video.
"'I spy some water bugs in the river!'" said Sammy.
Few seconds later, the clip was showing Sammy fell into the river. Then, there were few clips showing in the montage. First, he fell off the cliff while catching the butterfly. Second, the beehive crashed to the ground and the bees were chasing Sammy and Jimmy. Third, Jimmy fell over the lake while he was filming. Last, the tarantula ran into Sammy's leg and stunned him while he was holding the net.
"'I think I should've used a better net!'" Sammy exclaimed, as he broke his net in half before he fainted.
After the Slapjacks' video ended, everybody were still laughing so hard that they couldn't stop, including Isabelle. Sammy glared at Jimmy and was about to lose his temper. His younger brother started to bite his nails anxiously after seeing their flawless video.
"Oh cameraman, I'm ready to squash you!" Sammy yelled.
"Okay, I can fix it!" said Jimmy in a panic tone. "I can fix it!"
Sammy was outraged and started to chase after Jimmy. Jimmy started to run away from him as if his older brother didn't trust him for fixing the video after seeing their terrible outtakes. Everybody continued to laugh at them after their silly attempts, and this would never end.